Changing Luck for the Better

The psychology of gambling

01 April 2007

Gambling is a thriving form of entertainment in the UK, but may also become a form of addiction for some individuals. Just why do people gamble when ‘the house always wins’? Advances in brain imaging techniques are helping Cambridge scientists find out.

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Teaching excellence rewarded

06 July 2006
Eleven University of Cambridge lecturers have been recognised for their excellence in teaching, at an award ceremony for the 2006 Pilkington Prizes on July 6.
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Doctor Of Medicine Prizes

31 January 2006
Four doctors have received prizes from the University’s School of Clinical Medicine in recognition of outstanding work on their MD dissertations.
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Study partnership

05 August 2004
The first University of Cambridge-National Institutes of Health Scholars Colloquium was held on June 30. The Scholars Programme is a special interdisciplinary programme committed to scholarship in the training of exceptional students in various areas of basic biomedical research or clinical research, leading to a Doctor of Philosophy degree awarded by the University of Cambridge.
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Our war with microbes

23 June 2004

Professor Joshua Lederberg, Professor-Emeritus of Molecular Genetics and Informatics at Rockefeller University, will be speaking at the Sackler Distinguished Lecture at the School of Clinical Medicine about the evolutionary competition of humans with microbial species.

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Clinical School renews sponsorship agreement

08 July 2003

Leading pharmaceuticals company Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD) have recently entered into a new educational sponsorship agreement to give a further £1.5m to the University to support the training of future neuroscientists at Cambridge.

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